Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:47:36PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote:
> Herbert Xu (2001-04-22 22:23:04 +1000) :
> > Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
> >
> > > that would be one package, taking maybe a few hundred kilobytes
> > > total. call it kernel-helper and make it depend on
> > > kernel-package. problem solved.
> >
> > But why not take this one step further, let's just distribute what's
> > in build-essential and let the users compile the rest. Let's rewind
> > the clock back to times when men were men, and they compiled
> > everything on their own box :)
>
> Nonono, we should automate it as much as possible. I envision a
> global Makefile somewhere, and a ports/ directory, and a
> make-world.sh, and... And then Debian GNU/BSD! Yay!
or convince linus that the SunOS way is the one true way. edit a file
in /etc (call it linux.rc) that has the kernel tweaks. next boot, the
kernel recompiles itself.
whadayasay?
-john
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